1 coUrbanize.com PRESERVATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING Through a competition in Spring 2019, the City of Chicago selected Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) to develop city-owned land at the corner of 5th Avenue and Kedzie, in the Garfield Park neighborhood, as an affordable housing community with neighborhood-serving retail. The competition, which was implemented in cities around the world and sponsored by the C40 Network of Cities that tries to help cities tackle climate change issues, involved very little community input into design, aside from a small online survey and meetings held with bidders by local organizations. But before moving forward with next steps, POAH committed to the City that they would seek community input on what types of apartments would be planned, h

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